After early driver releases by MOTU, RME, Roland/Edirol, and a few others, the Vista driver landscape has been pretty quiet. (M-Audio, anyone?) Some drivers will work anyway, after dismissing some warning dialog boxes. But having Vista-ready drivers is, of course, ideal. PreSonus is the latest, with new 32-bit and 64-bit Vista drivers (and XP/XP x64) […]

Via the Create Digital Noise forums, Japanese electronic artist Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) has some terrific videos from director Koichiro Tsujikawa. Tsujikawa has not surprisingly racked up some awards for his work over the last few years. Via Getty Images: A highly regarded and inventive director, Koichiro Tsujikawa is a self-taught filmmaker whose reputation as an […]

Via the Create Digital Noise forums, Japanese electronic artist Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) has some terrific videos from director Koichiro Tsujikawa. Tsujikawa has not surprisingly racked up some awards for his work over the last few years. Via Getty Images: A highly regarded and inventive director, Koichiro Tsujikawa is a self-taught filmmaker whose reputation as an […]

Now, cassettes hold spare bills — you know, the things you used to save up to buy tapes. Continuing in the spirit of cassette tapes, here are two more cassette items. Cassettes that Hold Your Change Completely useless, but somewhat amusing: Designboom’s Cassette Wallet recycles old cassette shells into zippered money holders. If you’re looking […]

Photo credit: DG Jones. Leave the Marantz at home, and fire this one up in your homebrewed tape mangler. No laptops. No CD players. No turntables. The Cassette Jockey World Championships will be cassette tape only. And the rules are tough: store-bought, commercial cassette tapes only. (Dig that Paula Abdul out of your closet — […]

This week I thought I’d start of with something a little different. An artist that goes by the name Latinsizer of Mil Records (Latinsizer on MySpace). I first discovered Latinsizer via a number of great synth videos on YouTube posted by pepemogt. I personally like nearly all synth videos I see because regardless of the […]

The clock is ticking for Internet radio, from public broadcasting streams from stations like KCRW to Internet-only streaming services like Pandora. The Copyright Royalties Board recently approved new rates and restrictions that would increase costs for streamers by three to twelve times their previous rate. This month, the CRB rejected an appeal by broadcasters to […]

Jaymis is getting ready to go on tour with a rockstar, and I’m dreaming of geeky OpenGL implementations for 3D eye candy. Don’t worry; we’ll make the two worlds fit together eventually. Here’s the latest from OpenGL land. First, perhaps the days of Java lagging in OpenGL implementation are done. The updated 1.1.0 JOGL bindings […]

Jaymis is getting ready to go on tour with a rockstar, and I’m dreaming of geeky OpenGL implementations for 3D eye candy. Don’t worry; we’ll make the two worlds fit together eventually. Here’s the latest from OpenGL land. First, perhaps the days of Java lagging in OpenGL implementation are done. The updated 1.1.0 JOGL bindings […]

Jaymis is getting ready to go on tour with a rockstar, and I’m dreaming of geeky OpenGL implementations for 3D eye candy. Don’t worry; we’ll make the two worlds fit together eventually. Here’s the latest from OpenGL land. First, perhaps the days of Java lagging in OpenGL implementation are done. The updated 1.1.0 JOGL bindings […]